Why Europe is Our Enemy Now: The 'Yankee-Cowboy War' Explained

Europe is going back to the dark ages

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Trump just told Ukraine: “You should have never started the war, you could have given up land.” He's not wrong. If you surrender, you get to live and avoid war. But how did Ukraine start the war!?

What Trump said reminds me of two books I read earlier this year that have upended my perspective on politics:

• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

• Carl Oglesby’s The Yankee Cowboy War

As for the former, Elon Musk is shaping the presidency in ways that feel eerily like a return to the dual dynamics of John and Bobby Kennedy. Read up on that bit of history because it was RFK, not JFK, who averted the Cuban Missile Crisis.

JFK helped, of course. But RFK took the phone call from the Russians.

The real shift, though, came from Oglesby, whose 1977 book—yes, that book is that prescient—explains what the “deep state” actually is.

It’s Yankees Vs. Cowboys

There are two warring factions in America; the rest of us are players.

Yankees are the Ivy League, the New York Times, the East Coast monopolist—more on that in a second—and see American culture as an extension of European culture, that the West is “One World.” As Oglesby describes it, “In his mind Europe is the key world theater, and it is self-evident to the Yankees mind that the fate of the United States is inevitably linked up with Europe…”

The Cowboys don’t see it that way. He sees the United States as a break from European culture. It is not a total abandonment, but they don’t see American culture as a continuation of Europe. These are your Howard Hughes types, Texas oil tycoons, the Manifest Destiny entrepreneurs. They seek the next frontier.

Yankees are Obama, the Clintons, and JFK.

Cowboys are Trump, Elon Musk, and Richard Nixon.

How Did Ukraine ‘Start’ The War?

The JFK-Nixon comparison underscores a larger truth—neither the Cowboy nor the Yankee holds the monopoly on being “right.”

Ideas evolve, and epistemologies erode. For the Cowboys, chasing endless new “frontiers” plunged post-WWII America into an existential crisis. With nothing left to conquer at home, we turned to foreign wars as our new proving ground.

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan—pointless wars meant to satisfy the explorer and Cowboy in us. It only took 4.5 million deaths to do so.

Yet, as we all know, the Cowboys haven’t been in control for 16 years—since George W. Bush stepped out of office and the election of Barack Obama in 2008.

As Democrat James Carville put it in his book 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation, “We might not lose another election again!”

Even Trump’s first term was an extension of Yankee control because everything was challenged, from immigration to foreign policy. Opposition to Trump was open and brazen like when his generals refused to pull troops out of Syria in 2019. Or when the FBI and CIA framed him for Russia-Gate.

And with Trump 2024, it’s all over; the Cowboys are in control again.

“Do you believe it's all over, son?” said the Judge in Blood Meridian.

For now, yes. It is over. It won’t be like how Carville said—40 years—but I do predict, notwithstanding an unforeseen black swan event, the Cowboys will be in control for at least a decade.

Americans have had enough Yankee control and everything is about to change.

This brings us to Europe.

Trump’s point was that if Ukraine wanted to negotiate with Russia, you need to make concessions somewhere. Ukraine should have surrendered land instead of sacrificing millions to Moloch and BlackRock.

The tap the sign meme is real. Trump said he’s withdrawing support from Ukraine and demanding they, and the rest of Europe, fund their own military.

Zelensky wants 1,500,000 soldiers while America and Russia are negotiating peace without Europe. Immediately after, the Germans rejected Britain's proposal to send troops to the actual Ukranian front because things got real. Nobody in Germany wants a fucking war and people that claim are mentally ill or shills. German Secretary of State Annalena Baerbock wanted to send 700 billion euros to Ukraine after the elections. How’s that looking now?

I’m sure some Germans hope their right-wing AFD party wins or it's over....

Trump shoved Europe into a new reality, suspended midair like the coyote who finally looks down and sees the canyon waiting.

This is the part where I say, of course, Europe isn’t the enemy, but the Yankee worldview is finished—for now. For some Europeans—not my friends, the sharp ones—that truth will come as a harsh jolt.

The Ride Never Ends

“Ukraine started the war” is usual Trump hyperbole. But it's not untrue. It's always been the case that the more a person "supported" Ukraine in this war, the less they knew about it. Read Scott Horton’s Provoked to get a gist. Trump targeted NPCs who think the history of this war began in 2022, and the globohomo who brainwashed them.

Viktor Yanukovich, the former President of Ukraine, was couped because he realized that signing the Association agreement would draw the ire of Russia. Ukraine was convinced that joining the EU would automatically fix their sick country, pave their streets with gold, and give Russia a black eye, so they forced him out with the help of the U.S. State Department and $5 billion of our money.

They had plenty of warning from Russia to lay off the ethnic Russian population in the East but the illegal government persisted.

Ukraine were up their eyeballs in obligation to the West—hey, what was Hunter Biden doing there again?— and their 100 percent corrupt installed puppet Volodymyr Zelenskyy was more than happy to siphon off from the flow of money that followed a commitment to host a proxy way with the West.

Shameful! Wretched and shameful! And after Russia came to the defense of Russians, did Ukraine or its sponsors lift a finger to negotiate? No. They never lifted a finger; Ukraine was selling their own blood and that of Russians for suitcases full of cash and modern weapons.

They started it, as did the United States, and we did nothing to stop it.

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Yankee Cowboy War is a must-read but it’s $180 on Amazon. I got mine for Christmas for $150—but if you want it for zero here’s the audiobook.